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When the Playboy interview came out, just after Koch entered the governor's race, he said that surely upstaters were sophisticated enough to take a joke. Koch lost that primary-a bigger upset than the one on September 12th. The next day a bell ringer, giving a noonday concert on the carillon at Albany City Hall, near the state capitol, happily pounded out "Who's Sorry Now?" T HE Mayor did not attend the Nathan Hale Day commemora- tion. His official schedule that day read -as it had on several days since the primary-"No Scheduled Public Ap- pearances." This was very different from his former daily agenda. As the Mayor's friend William Buckley wrote in his syndicated column after the pri- mary, "If there was a public function without Koch, it meant that he was at another public function, going on si- multaneously." Buckley, who a few months before had gone out of his way to mention that (like Ronald Reagan) he agreed with the Mayor's statement that most homeless people were home- less by choice, wrote that Koch had been done in by his "unquenchable thirst for candor"-which had caused him to make harsh (though accurate) statements about] esse] ackson, which, in turn, had caused him to be unfairly maligned as a racist. The columnist seemed to count as regrettable the im- pending departure of Koch, whom he described as "a good man and the quintessential New Yorker." Buckley's view was in sharp contrast to that of another syndicated columnist, David Broder. In a column after the primary, Broder said, "The defeat of Ed Koch told us one thing only: after twelve years, even New Yorkers had had a bellyful of the most obnoxiously loud- mouthed politician in the country." The outcome, he added, must have OCTOBER. 9, 1989 surprised the editorial board of the Tzmes, which had "incredibly"-in contrast to "people of less-refined taste and intellect" who had "gagged on Koch's act years ago"-managed to overlook his municipal scandals and his "blatant race-baiting" of Jesse ] ack- son, and had endorsed the Mayor for a fourth term. After discussing what he saw as discouraging political news from other precincts, Broder con- cluded, "But let's not be too gloomy. Any year that ends Ed Koch's public career can't be all bad." Someone who stopped by the Hale ceremony before it started was Giu- liani. In transit from one campaign appearance to another, Giuliani, a dark- haired, intense-looking man of forty-five, caught sight of the children from P .S. 40 and introduced himself, possibly with a photo opportunity in mind. Soon aftel ward, however, one of the fourth graders demanded to know why he couldn't see David Dinkins instead. Others joined in, loudly chant- ing, "We want David Dinkins! Why can't we see David Dinkins!," as Giu- liani stood there, evidently groping for some suitably quotable response. The fact that he was unable to come up at once with a smart crack ("He's some- where around here," he finally said, lamely) does not, of course, disqualify him for the position of mayor, al- thoug h some New Y or kers, after nearly twelve years of hearing Koch toss off smart cracks guaranteed to turn into thirty-second bites on the radio and television news, may have come to think of this talent as a mayoral cre- dential, like adîninistrative ability or politically useful ethnic roots. After all, the talented Koch had now been given the heave-ho in favor of a can- didate hardly known for his bright say- ings. "A PLODDING SYMBOL OF UNITY, DINKINS FAILS TO STIR NEW YORK PASSIONS" was an August 20th head- line in the Washington Post, over a story mentioning that Dinkins had "little instinct for the jugular" and quoting Democratic operatives-affili- ation not specified-who described him as "a clerk" and "a very nice man" who's "not quick on his feet" and "just wasn't up to it." The message seemed to be that, black or white, Dinkins didn't have "the necessities." When, a week after the primary, Dinkins deliv- ered a speech to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden told him